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between two regimes, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803)

In 1783, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris enrte accepted four women members. Labille-Guiard Adelaide was one of them. The great portrait Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun was another of the great painters who entered the academy in Adelaide the same day. For this reason and because of the similarity of his work, both artists were constantly compared and even confused. And while Adelaide did not reach the Elisabeth achieved fame in many European courts, he gained a place in the neoclassical art world of Paris.

A long training

Adelaide was born in 1749. He was the youngest of eight children of a family belonging to the Parisian bourgeoisie. His father was a draper and ran a shop in the neighborhood of Saint-Eustache. Adelaide did not come from a family of artists such as Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun so he could not learn at home. Many details are unknown although their formation is known to François-Elie Vincent and his son François-André taught him the art of miniature and oil respectively.

Thanks to the influence of Vincent, the young painter was admitted to the Académie Saint-Luc in 1769 and was able to present their first works after five years.

French Academy and comparisons

Adelaide had to wait many years until he was 34 to get to be accepted into the French Academy. Meanwhile, he earned his living as a teacher. The fact that he entered the academy the same day that the great portrait painter Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun led to constant comparisons between them. While it is true that the work of Adelaide was influenced by that of Élisabeth and this he acquired an important international, over time, the paintings of Adelaide were recognized with the same value as those of its rival.

In court

Vigee-Lebrun While painted for Queen Marie Antoinette, Labille-Guiard was supported by the Princess Mary Adelaide, aunt of King Louis XVI. His patronage brought him a pension of one thousand pounds and numerous commissions to photograph the royal family.

in revolutionary Paris

Two years after the Revolution broke French. Although political views were close to Adelaide Republican principles, the fact of working for the royal family put her in an uncomfortable and dangerous situation. This improved when he agreed to portray some revolutionary leaders like Robespierre and got rid of some of his works made on behalf of the royal family.

His two marriages

was during his time at the Académie Saint-Luc when she met her future first husband, Louis-Nicolas Guiard. Their marriage lasted only eight years. In 1777 they separated. Six years later, thanks to new laws revolutionary, the couple legally divorced.

end up marrying Adelaide François-André Vincent one of his teachers of youth.

Last time

Until the turn of the century, the painter continued working and exhibiting his paintings. In 1795 got a new pension of 2000 pounds. Labille-Guiard Adelaide died on April 24, 1803.